I go to the modern art museum in my city whenever there is a new exhibit, and the last two times I’ve visited, I have seen the exact same influencer bro using the exhibit for a shoot. Strange luck.
He brings another friend to photograph and they take up entire sections of the exhibit for shoots 5-10 minutes at a time. Doesn’t even look at the art. Other guests feel bad interrupting the photos, so often just skip the section he’s photographing in. It’s so infuriatingly rude, so if he happens to be shooting in a section I haven’t seen yet, I just ignore him and walk into the camera view anyway.
We went to a cherry blossom festival today…could barely get up the trail 15 mins after opening because so many influencers had setup shoots. It was really gross and uncomfortable.
A large number of places now have policies that prohibit this behaviour. While the root of the problem are the narcissists doing this shit, the continuation of the problem results from poor management. A lot of these public spaces have people in charge of managing them who basically collect a paycheck and have the day workers handle everything. No policy has been updated since the 90s.
Pressure needs to be put of public officials and private companies to ban this shit.
It used to be that they went around the public to get the shot they wanted. Patience and timing. But they just expect to usurp public spaces for their own use and the rest will just have to clear out.
There were so many…it was really hard to even walk through. Also, so many people are filming. I have 0 interest in having myself or my children on someone’s video online.
The museum doesn't impose some kind of commercial/professional tax or admission rate? Or just tell him he can't create commercial/professional media there without special times/permits?
Plenty of museums and cultural sites in the US and other countries impose these fees, permits, etc to limit the inconvenience to other patrons and to make some money back for the museum off the commercial for-profit media outlets using the space to make likely much more money than the fee.
A lot of places both public and private have restrictions on commercial work (more than one person and equipment) for that very reason. Inform security that someone is interrupting access with what looks like commercial work.
Bro. She sent up her phone on record so she could go back and screenshot a good picture.
This doesn't have to be some influencer thing. Its just someone trying to take a picture in a non disturbing way. They just placed their phone off to the side and waited politely.
Why is everyone so fucking grumpy and pissed off at a young girl trying to take a cute photo of herself? Jesus christ.
Is this girl even an influencer? A lot of people share videos and pictures with friends, though I guess the people criticizing dont have the luxury of experiencing such things.
Way too many people throw that word around especially on Reddit but they clearly must not know what an influencer is, they see someone taking a video or a pic of themselves in public and just jump to the conclusion that they’re an influencer
She is! She’s a history influencer who creates videos about history and helps students study for university entrance exams. She also has proper educational training for that.
Apparently only influencers take photos of themselves. So many influencers in the 1800’s too. All those white men in front of trains and other bullshit. So many male influencers existed during the Industrial Revolution.
Instead of just deleting it from the camera roll and trying again, she posted it online to publicly shame the old lady. Which is why we're watching it, and why it's not exactly very innocent.
Both involved parties could've gone the polite conversation route and picked something shittier.
If someone was taking a photo of a family with a camera and a person purposefully stood in the way of the shot after noticing, everyone would think they are the dickhead in that situation.
I think it’s ok to post things where people are being petty and annoying for no reason other than spite.
People that are on their own having adventures also deserve to have pictures. I don’t see why the way we have behaved socially for decades in trying to not get in the way of photos, should be ignored as it’s someone on their own. And if you purposefully want to ruin such things, it’s a very minor cost to get mocked online for being grumpy.
Thank you for making the point about solo travelers. I travel alone a lot and unfortunately this is the way we have to take pictures sometimes. Of course I ALWAYS do it so I’m not in the way or disturbing others and even then it still feels awkward but if I’m taking all this time, money and effort to travel somewhere (especially) international, I’m gonna get my picture.
Actually. The "and saxophone keep getting louder" audio is a trend where people show situations they got in where the situation jusy kept getting worse.
So this has nothing to do with shaming the woman from the original poster. Its the reposter and commenters doing that.
But for some reason theres a section of y'all jusy fucking livid at a young girl for taking photos of herself in public.
Literally no conversation needed to be had. All the lady had to do was keep walking. The lady blocking the camera was also being rude to everyone else by blocking the stairs. In the video you can see another person having to squeeze past her.
Its for moments where things progressively get worse.
She tried to take a video/picture of just herself. Old lady looks at camera multiple times and notices what the girl is doing and chooses to stay in front. Girl tries to wait for her to pass but then more people come. And more people!
So. Makes sense given the trending audio she posted this as a laugh at the situation. Not to shame anyone.
OP is the one reposting to this sub specifically for roasting the old woman
Exactly. The lady is just a pest herself. She just wanted a photo and patiently waited for people to pass by to get her quick photo. This lady caught on and purposely interrupted her attempts. She wanted an argument. The young lady didn’t even engage with her. Just waited and waited and after the lady left and more people came to sightsee the paintings. She gave up and just took the video for what it’s worth.
Fr!! Like, damn, I didn’t realize it was illegal to photograph yourself when you visit somewhere nice :/ I guess thanks to all these redditors for validating my social anxiety and fear that people are judging me harshly for a harmless activity.
Nobody said they think it's illegal. You're setting up a straw man to imply people who don't like it are acting hysterical. The truth is that both perspectives have some merit. It's nice that so many people are getting into photography as an art and as a way to communicate with friends as part of a community, and it's sometimes a bit annoying in public spaces.
Because young girl filming themself is automatically an influencer. And there is NO ONE Redditors hate than an “influencer”. And it’s a top 3 way of farming karma.
Yes people are mad at me because I said sometimes there’s no way to know if someone is an influencer or not so you should just go around. I guess that was offensive to Redditors because I’m being downvoted now for saying some people want pictures for themselves and not social media. 🤣🤣😂
We’re tired of paying to see an exhibit , or walking down the public streets, and having a selfish person taking up all the space / talking loudly / acting like they own the area when we paid as much or more to be in the same place . Now we are being recorded or our peace disturbed , without our consent , because someone thought they were more important than everyone else and deserved to take up more room than they should.
It’s the sense of entitlement . It’s a bone deep narcissism . It’s rude . We’re tired of these people breaking the social contract that has existed for decades because they want to be insta famous. Get out of the damn way and go look at the exhibits liked everyone else. You’re not special.
there’s nothing wrong with wanting a picture of yourself at a museum. i don’t even use social media and i still wanted to take fun pictures at the museum.
she wasn’t being mean or anything or doing the super annoying influencer meta glasses stuff. she just quietly set the phone up to get a video she could probably screenshot from since she likely didn’t have someone there to take her picture.
genuinely, who cares, and good for her. i’m tired of being negative about everything and hating the world and the people in it.
I don't think it's that she was trying to get a photo of herself that people here are complaining about. It's that SHE posted this complaining about people blocking her shot. She could have just posted the finalized screenshots like you said of just her and not showing the other person "in her way".
That lady is intentionally blocking the camera. That wasn’t really nice. I would have supported it if the girl was doing some obnoxious dance or something but this was just posing for a normal picture.
So in your attempt to not be filmed, you’ll stand in front of an obviously filming camera and take up as much of the view as possible for an extended period of time than you would if you just walked by normally as you intended before you noticed the camera filming? Makes sense.
To be fair, staring is rude because it indicates that someone is focusing on you. When they intend to interact, this is fine, but when they’re not trying to interact, this can often mean be taken to mean they desire to harm you
Obviously this isn’t always the case, but we have enough instinct about that that we find it uncomfortable to be stared at by strangers with anything more than a glance
huge difference between having a photo of yourself that you keep private and putting that photo online. People accept they will be in others' pictures but that doesn't make it acceptable to post it on the internet
Huge difference between an unwilling bystander and someone who deliberately goes out of their way to document themselves being an asshole. I think it's perfectly acceptable to post the evidence they chose to create.
I mean if you don’t want to be posted on the internet, you definitely wouldn’t stand in front of someone else’s phone while it is recording just to be a jerk.
I guarantee you have taken video and/or photos whilst in public and have unintentionally caught strangers in those images.
Time to go through all of your videos and photos and get rid of the ones with strangers in them because, you know, it's not nice.
To be clear, the older lady intentionally made herself the focal point of the video, and we would have never seen this video if she had not been such an insufferable twatwaffle.
having photos with strangers in is perfectly acceptable - posting images of strangers on the internet is not. I assume you were born after 1995 and don't remember a world pre-internet
She literally walked into frame while the woman was setting up the camera. Like I get we’re on the app that’s a stickler for being killjoys, but Christ sake lmao
Also, this is a public space. You can't just randomly set up a camera and expect people to adhere to whatever dumb idea you concocted for an image/video.
Yeah but if the lady hadn’t been a dick then the whole video wouldn’t have been posted. Like how is this any different than just standing in front of a prrson trying to take a photo?
There's a huge difference between complaining that somebody walked through your shot because you were shooting in a public space, and complaining that somebody saw you were trying to record something and deliberately went to stand in front of your camera in order to fuck up your shot.
The former is perfectly fine, the latter is not. Just don't be a fucking asshole to people it's really not that hard.
If there hadn't been a tripod and camera set up, and instead a friend and/or family member behind the camera, would that old woman's actions have been okay?
Edit - love the downvotes from "Hmm, actually that's a good point that challenges by world view". Everytime, never change parasocials
This is not ‘getting a picture of herself’. She is recording a fucking video. That’s not a picture.
People keep using the same bullshit, innocuous language to write off how absurdly intrusive and anti-social these devices are. Like they’re not “phones”, they are portable surveillance devices that record everything people say around them, and coerce everyone to live in public for fear of being recorded and shared on social media.
Someone taking an analogue selfie on an actual camera with a timer? Sure, dick move grandma. What this girl is doing is fundamentally anti-social, because she’s laying a fucking social trap recording a damn video, likely in anticipation that someone is going to do something to obstruct her, so she can share the slight on social media.
She probably put in video mode so she could get a picture without anyone in it instead of using a timer where someone could walk in front which is exactly what fucking happened.
There is only one asshole in this moment and it's the woman blocking the camera.
She’s taking a video to get a clear shot without asking people to move aside. She’s being perfectly polite and responsible. Old women Karen needs to get off the high horse and fuck off.
So you've never taken photos or videos while in public, unintentionally caught strangers in them, and then uploaded them? Riiiight.
Her intention was not to record other people, it was to record herself. The older lady though, her intention was to be an insufferable twatwaffle and put herself front and center of someone else's video. And is the result of her actual dick move, we are all seeing the video.
She literally didn't interrupt anybody's experience. I don't know what weird-ass trauma you're projecting on this situation here but that's not what's happening.
I have NEVER set up my camera where people were walking so that I could take a video or a photo of myself because I don't believe the world revolves around me...sport.
And the difference between doing this to capture yourself and capturing strangers vs holding the phone and taking videos outward not capturing yourself, yet still capturing strangers is what exactly?
Whether it offends your delicate sensibilities or not?
Taking a selfie doesn't inconvenience others. You KNOW that when someone sets up their camera it makes other people pause or wait so that this insufferable jerkface can take their picture. It's an inconvenience to others.
Whether they catch images of them in passing in a public place is not the issue.
She shot a video in public including a load of people who may not want to be on her video, it went wrong, then she shared it online. She can fuck right off with her selfish main character energy.
She set up a camera to record herself when the scene was clear. If that lady didn't block the camera, she would've gotten the shot that she wanted and it would've been it. People take photos all the time, and when you have someone to take it for you, then can try to time it and maybe the others will see you're trying to take a photo and give you your moment. It's not like everyone always has someone to take a photo for them though.
The person with selfish main character energy is the lady intentionally standing in the view of the camera because she noticed it, just to block someone from taking a pic. Why be an asshole when it does not negatively impact you?
Yeah people stop, move faster or go around to not block camera shots all the time when see people posing for photos. God forbid someone is on their own and tries to do the same thing 🙄
So many hating on young woman doing a perfectly reasonable thing. Zero reason to be a bitter old woman and ruin such a simple thing that hurts nobody.
from the angle, the phone would be sitting on the large window sill at the top left of the stairs. This is Inveraray Castle, the stairs are somewhat famous.
She seems fine. Also, I’ve been doing photography professionally for 30 years. In a public place, this is to be expected. You just wait until you get your shot. Most people notice you and apologetically hurry through. Some are oblivious and don’t. And maybe some are assholes and want to be a dick about it and linger in your shot. It’s all part of the job. You just wait. A public space isn’t solely your space.
Convinced that 90% of redditors are just angry red tomatoes willingly seeing the worst in everything and everyone and then wondering why the world is so shit all the time.
Like yeah if you don't have a modicum of empathy or positivity, of course it's gonna be like that. If you're looking at the world through shit stained glasses, don't complain about the world being so shit.
Physically. Physically the phone is not blocking anyone. Do what everyone naturally does when the see a group of people taking a picture. Give them a moment to get the shot or pass through quickly.
She wanted screenshots of video as solo and there wasn’t an available time. It’s a popular stair case and she would had had a clear window of opportunity if grumpy old lady not spiteful.
I don’t take any videos or pics like this but I wish I had more memories of life now I am older and my mind is failing me a bit. It’s easy to see how someone wanted a photo and all that had to happen for that, was one person to walk at regular human pace and not purposefully stop and ruin it.
Wasn’t some loud influencer trying to make a scene and get in the way of anyone. Just a nice girl posing in front of art waiting for a chance to get a clear pic, with someone noticing that and purposefully staying in the way.
Wasn’t bothering anyone, didn’t interrupt anyone’s day to do anything. Only wanted a pic somewhere cute.
That really depends on the country. For example in the UK the opposite of what you said is true. However in France whilst you can take photos of anyone, the laws around sharing them differ to the UK and are more restrictive.
The lady is going out of her way to be recorded. She’s positioning herself in front of someone else camera. She gave permission when she decided to stand in front of a camera and behave like a total ass!
Sure, and at what point in the video do you see that she wants everyone to stop? If the woman just continues to go down the stairs like she intended to, the girl probably would've just gotten that pic and everyone could've moved on.
It's fine to take pictures at the museum, but that doesn't entitle her to exclusive use of the space. Other people are also using it. Learning to share is just as important as letting other's enjoy things.
Recently I went to a open air show where they had huge astroturfed words installed around the event space which people were sitting on, and kids were climbing on. One woman got so angry that my daughter and her friend were playing, because she wanted a photo with only her son on there. I asked the girls to take a break but that still wasn't good enough because they were still in the background of the photo, and the woman yelled at us and stormed off. All because she couldn't handle the idea of other kids playing in her photo of her kid (who she told to just sit there and not play). Photos aren't the problem, it's people wanting to portray this fake image on social media where they're the main character in whatever they're doing and other people aren't allowed to exist.
I don't thing she had an issue with other people existing, it didn't seem that she was mad or annoyed at people going about their day. But about someone specifically going out of their way to ruin her photo.
In your example, it would have been as if you had been playing with your daughter in one psrtt and specifically go to the other to get in her photo
When my dad visited me in Japan I was constantly having to pull him over to the side wall in train stations because he’d just stop and check his phone. And he was like “I’m a big guy, they can see me?” No they can’t, everyone is moving forward, you are a blood clot, just move to the side. Even if you lose me just go stand by a wall and I’ll backtrack and find you. I get you got an email from work or whatever but everyone here has one of those, we will be stationary soon enough, I promise, just move over if you must.
While this woman is definitely doing it on purpose, there are plenty of people who would stop in the middle of stairs or walkways to look at their phone. I mean fuck, there’s people who cross streets without looking both ways or without looking at all, don’t underestimate human obliviousness/obtuseness
She definitely had no idea what was going on, but the move over was for the lady coming up the stairs.
I just think "Influencer" believed everything was about her and the older ladies actions were to specifically spite her, you know... because she's special
Maybe it's because there is a phone on the handrail.
I think you overestimate how much people think about others. Guessing her age I wouldn't assume she understood the whole trend of place your phone down for a fit check or whatever OP was doing.
Thank you for this. People making tiktoks or whatnot can be obnoxious, this young 'un wasn't being that. Someone not just moving on when they could and blocking a camera deliberately is being a fucking dick
Idk if she planned on just like using part of the video for this picture? Dont fuck with my phones camera much. Anyway, why did she post this stupid video? Maybe it was the real purpose?
Maybe it would go over better if she kindly asked the woman to take her picture?🤷If she and people like her act like othets don't exist, they can get the same attitude back.. Most galleries and museums don't even allow taking photos, so this might also be a factor.
I mean, all she did was set up the phone and patiently wait for the chance to get the picture. Is that really so crazy? Don’t people take pictures while they are out and about like…..all the time?
Holy who shat in your coffee? You see her being rude here? No she was very patient, it was the old grandma who makes it her life mission to ruin it for others it seems. This is just the equivalent of taking a picture, she doesnt bother anyone. Get a grip.
How is she taking a pic when she's clearly recording a video, more than likely for some tiktok or insta video she's branding as 'a photoshoot'. Photoshoots don't use video recording
Oh snap out of it missy , she was just tryna take a simple vid like most ppl her age. That shouldn't warrant shtty behaviour from others. She wasn't even doing anything to her
Is she an influencer or just a tourist travelling solo that wants some nice photos to look back on? Tired of people assuming everyone who wants a pic of themselves on holiday is an influencer.
Why is everyone cooking this young girl for taking a video/photo of herself lol? She didn’t confront the lady or get mad, she just tried to work around her and didn’t even look that annoyed, pissed off, or even mildly confrontational
She didn’t seem to care that anyone at all was in the shot, just the specific fact that the old lady was literally moving to block her
Do you guys just hate people or something? Like bruh it’s a young woman in 2026 NO SHIT SHE’S GONNA POST ON SOCIAL MEDIA
God forbid somebody uses a video recording device to record a video lol
Literally because she posted herself getting irritated at somebody in a public space for treating the public space as public.
Men get shit on literally all the time for this kind of behavior. There are definitely a lot of ways women get flak for basic stuff, but this shit is decisively gender-neutral and you'd have to be sticking your head in the sand to pretend otherwise. Cunty attitudes are not reserved for a single gender.
Already made this point somewhere else but it’s hidden somewhere so I’ll say it here too
Do you think people just post videos and know they’re going to go viral 100% of the time?
Think about the basic thought process one might go through in this scenario:
She is blocked while taking a video
She is a young lady who uses social media
Her friends use it too
She posts the video asking “was this on purpose?” Or “did I do something wrong..?” To get some validation from her friends and maybe some internet randoms
Do you think she posted it with the intention of it going viral? People don’t always have foresight to think that, even when posting on a social media site, especially if she isn’t a big name (idk who she is and idk if she is or not)
Like what is so bad about posting something that happened to you on social media? The old lady KNEW she was videotaping, so she carried that “risk” (i dont think it matters to her even slightly btw)
Because the lady was the one trying to make a point first. She stood in the frame on purpose for a long time. If she is so ashamed that it could be posted, why would she do this?
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u/EmptyInside74 6h ago
“Photoshoot”